Milwaukee Brewers general manager Doug Melvin, shown Tuesday, was back in camp on Thursday after being stung by a scorpion. / Morry Gash, AP

by Peter Barzilai, USA TODAY Sports

by Peter Barzilai, USA TODAY Sports

On Monday, Brian Cashman of the New York Yankees broke his leg and dislocated his ankle in a skydiving accident. And now Doug Melvin of the Milwaukee Brewers is recovering after being stung by a scorpion Wednesday night.

Melvin and his wife, Ellen, were in their Phoenix-area condominium when he reached down with a Kleenex to deal with what he thought was a harmless bug. Instead it was an Arizona bark scorpion, which is highly venomous and in rare cases can be fatal.

The scorpion stung Melvin on the middle finger of his left hand and was followed by numbness moving up his arm. Melvin said he Googled scorpion stings and headed to the emergency room.

"It stung me right through the Kleenex," Melvin told reporters Thursday morning at the Brewers' spring training complex in Maryvale, Ariz. "My arm started swelling and then the numbness started going up my arm, like when you hit your funny bone. I was wondering if it might go all the way up my arm and go to my heart. I got nervous when it got up to my shoulder, so I went to the emergency room."

Melvin said he spent three hours in the ER but felt well enough to be at work Thursday. "My arm is still totally numb," he said.

"They gave me (pain medication) and just watched me for a couple of hours. They said your vision can go blurry from that. It was more an education on it, but my arm is still numb. First off, they tell you it's not fatal. But you can have an allergic reaction to it and need an anti-venom injection."

And how will he treat a scorpion intruder the next time? "I'm going to have (Ellen) kill it with her shoe," he said.